
Class 
Book 



American History 



IN RHYME, 



MRS. CHARLES "h/ GARDNER, 

PRINCIPAL OF SCHOOL FOR YOUNG LADIES, 

607 FIFTH AVENUE, 

NEW YORK CITY. 



NEW YORK: 
PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR. 

1887. 



Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1S84, by- 

Mary Russell Gardner, 

In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, 



Columbia Press, 
821 Sixth Avenue, New York. 



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PREFACE. 

In response to the numerous requests for the 
History of the United States in Rhyme, this 
portion appears. It will constitute the first part, 
and the second will be published as soon as it is 
ready. 

The American history has been treated dif- 
ferently from those of England and France. 
I have tried to make the narrative somewhat in- 
teresting, while preserving that conciseness which 
would adapt it to memorizing. My labor will 
be sufficiently rewarded, if this outcome of it 
receive as kindly a welcome as that which has 
greeted my previous efforts. Any suggestions 
from teachers and others, which are designed to 
help me in adapting my works to the use of 
young people, will be gratefully acknowledged. 

Mary Russell Gardner. 



History of the United States 



IN RHYME. 



DISCOVERIES. 



IN searching for a pathway west, 

To shores of rich and far Cathay, 
Columbus, on his fruitless quest, 
To our West Indies found his way. 
In fourteen hundred ninety-two, 
He brouQrht our orlorious land to view. 

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Our country, which should bear his name, 
Was called America, from one, 
Vespucius, who obtained the fame 
For what Columbus first had done. 



Discovery ol 
America by 

Christopher 
Columbus, 

Oct. 12, li92. 



John Cabot next, came o'er the sea; 
Found Labrador, and, then, his son 
Sebastian, sailing southerly, 
Virginia for England won. 



John Cabot, 

li97. 

Sebastian 

Cabot, 

1498. 



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Ponr-e-de- 
Leon, 
151-2. 



Ponce-de-Leon held as truth 

The news that here a fountain flowed 

Whose waters gave perennial youth. 

He came ; on Florida bestowed 

Its name, from flowers with which it o^lowed. 



Balboa 

1512. 



Balboa was the first to see 
The broad Pacific's boundless tide ; 
i?e Soto, And Mississippi's waters free 

1539-41. i i 

Hid all De Soto's stubborn pride. 



Cortez, 

1519-21. 



Magellan, 

1520. 



Yerrazzano, 

1524. 



The splendor of the Aztec race 
The Spanish Cortez sweeps away ; 
And slavery and blood replace 
The pomp of Montezuma's sway. 

Around the world Maorellan went ; 
And France, new countries to explore, 
The hardy Yerrazzano sent, 
Who cruised about our eastern shore. 



1534-35 



jamesCartier james Cartler reached Newfoundland ; 
St. Lawrence Gulf, and River, traced; 
Named Mont Real for prospect grand. 
By mountain, wood and water graced. 



Ribault, 

1562. 



French Huguenots, by Ribaut led, 
In Carolina shelter sought : 



A part the irksome woodland fled, 
While others hostile Spaniards fought. 

In fifteen hundred sixty-five, 
Melendez, at St. Augustine, 
Had caused a colony to thrive, 
And here our oldest town is seen. 



Melendez, 

1565. 



The fearless Frobisher set out 

To find a passage to Cathay, 

By an untried, north-western route ; 

And claimed for England Baffin's Bay. 

Sir Francis Drake, on his lonor cruise, 
Sails southward, through Magellan Strait ; 
Pacific's broad expanse he views, 
And ploughs it to the " Golden Gate." 
A westward passage home is found. 
And, thus, he goes the world around. 



Frobisher. 

157(3. 



In fifteen hundred eighty-four. 

Sir Walter Raleigh's ships are seen; 

And Carolina's verdant shore 

Is named Virginia, for the Queen. 

He colonized, without success: 

All perished in the wilderness. 



Sir Walter 
Baleiffh, 

1583-87. 



Quebec was founded by Champlain : 
ciiampiain. And, where St. Lawrence River flowed^ 
And spread fair Acadie's domain, 
The Frenchmen settled their abode. 

Gosnoid, Cape Cod by Gosnold was descried, 

1602. T • • 1 

In steermg straight across the sea. 
^®^JI?'^'^" ^^ sixteen nine, bold Hudson tried 
To sail for China, northerly. 
A noble river bears his name ; 
A bay, the monument and tomb 
Of him, the mariner of fame. 
Who met, alas, an unknown doom. 



son, 
1609. 



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VIRGINIA. 



TN sixteen-six, King James divides, 

Between two rival companies, 
From where the Cape Fear River gHdes 
To Maine's remote extremities. 
The Plymouth men have northern parts, 
And Londoners the southern share. 
At Jamestown, Captain Newport starts 
A colony, which flourished there. 
In sixteen hundred seven, were sent 
The first whose stay was permanent. 



James I. 
grants a vast 

territory to 
the Plymouth 
Company 
and the 
London Com- 
pany, 
1(306. 



Jamesto^vn 
founded, 

1(307. 



But half the emiorants survived 

The summer's heat and pestilence. 

Their courage prudent Smith revived, 

And won the red man's confidence. 

Fair Pocahontas saved his life, 

And dread Powhatan ceased from strife. 

In sixteen nine, came '' Starving Time ;" 



John Smith, 

1607-1009. 



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And, when the settlers, sore dismayed, 
Resolved to flee the wretched clime, 
LordEeia- Lord Delaware their purpose stayed; 

ware, . . , ^ , . 

June 1610. His ministration, hrm and wise. 
Promoted peace and enterprise. 



First legisia- At first, cach English settlement 
everassem- Had been by Enorlish law sustained ; 

bled in ^ & 

Jut???i6i9. In Yeardley's time, the government 
By an Assembly was maintained ; 
A legislature, then, was named, 
And written Constitution framed. 



In sixteen nineteen — fateful year — 

The negro captives first appear. 

Three winters passed : when spring awoke, 
Massaereby The Indian on the war-path broke, 
m1^^. And, in one day of furious fray. 

Wreaked vengeance on his helpless prey. 

In mass the colonists arose. 
The London And hunted down their stealthy foes. 

company 

loses its 

Charter, 

16-21. 

novSp?o? ^^^ London Company suppressed, 
,., "''^'^' Kins: Tames appoints a governor. 

She opposes "^ -^ ^ ^ ^ 

^^tfonAef When Charles the Martyr is at rest 



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The " Old Dominion" threatens war. 
From Cromwell, who enforces peace, 
The " Restoration" brinors release. 
A ''Great Rebellion" rends the land,— 
By young, audacious Bacon planned. 
He dies ; and, though is lost the fight 
For civil liberty and right, 
A hundred years shall bring again 
The call to break oppression's chain. 



Cromwell 
conipells obe- 
dience, 
Charles II. 
1G6I). restored 
the royal 
governor. 
Rebellion of 
Nathaniel Ba- 
con, i(j76. 
Virginia be- 
comes a pro- 
prietary gov- 
ernment. 
In 1684 it is a 
Eoyal Pro- 
vince. 



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NEW ENGLAND, 



.Settlement of 

Plvmoiith 

ii:.20. 



TN sixteen twenty, came to land, 

On Massachusetts' wintry shore. 
The Mayflower's earnest pilgrim band, 
Who Freedom's sacred banner bore. 
At home tormented and oppressed, 
They here found liberty and rest. 



John Carver, 



John Carver, as the governor, 
Gave lawful right to every man. 
Miles Standish was the chief in war, 
Against the ambushed Indian. 
Through cold, disease and poverty 
The Pilgrim ranks, ere spring, decrease 
With Massasoit, their firm ally, 
Massaoit,iG2i, They smoke the calumet of peace. 



Miles Stun 
dish. 



Treaty of 
Peace with 



Salem To Salem, sixteen twentv-eis^ht, 

founded, - g ' 

i''-'^- Come Puritans, with Endicott. 
In sixteen thirty, emigrate 



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Those who with Winthrop cast their lot. 
Foundations of a state they lay 
On shores of Massachusetts' Bay. 



Massachu- 
sett's Bay 
Colony found- 
ed, 1630. 



The banished Roorer Williams founds 

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Rhode Island State, at Providence. 
Anne Hutchinson God's will expounds: 
The Quakers suffer violence. 



Pihode Island 

founded, 

1636. 



At Windsor, Hartford, Weathersheld 
And Saybrook, Puritans arrive. 
The Dutch to English settlers yield. 
Connecticut's beginnings thrive. 
The men who at New Haven bide. 
Accept the Bible as their guide. 
The colonies consolidate, 
And go to form the '' Nutmeg State." 



Foundation 
of Connecti- 
cut Colony b> 
emigration 
from Massa- 
chusetts, 1635. 
Saybrook fort 
built by John 
Winthrop, 
1635. 
Foundation 
of Xe\y Hayen 
under Daven- 
port and 
Eaton, KWS. 
Union of 
Connecticut 

and Ne\v 
Haven, 1665. 



Enraged, the native Pequot sees 
The pale-faced stranger in the land : 
In hostile camp he perishes, 
Destroyed by Mason's flaming brand. 



The Pequot 
"War, 1637. 



In sixteen hundred forty-three, 
For mutual help and sympathy, 



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Union of the For aid In council and in fio-ht, 

iSew England «=» 

Colonies, New Eneland colonies unite. 



King Philip, son of Massasoit, 
With Narraofanset braves allied, 
King Philip's In many a bloociy, fierce exploit 
1075. Spreads desolation far and wide. 

Through Massachusetts, east to Maine, 
Sweeps on the deadly hurricane. 

Brave Winslow, Turner, Holyoke, chase 

The savage to his hiding place ; 

And Pokanoket's chieftain dies, — 

To treachery a sacrifice. 

In forest, field and huntine-eround, 

No more the dusky race is found. 

Cromwell, N ew England holds from Cromwell's hands 

l(ji9-o9. ^ 

A freedom ample and secure. 
Charles 11. Of Massachusetts Charles demands 
The Forfeit- Her precious Charters forfeiture; 

ure of the -^ ., 

Charter, And serviie Parliament enacts 

The odious '* Navigation Acts," 

James II. 
makes New jr- j j i • i 

England a Kmor ames s arbitrary rule 

Royal Prov- -. a i r ^ r - i 

mee, with Sir In Audros huds a nttinsf tool. 

Edmund An- ^ 

IdSit^'iesr^'Nevv England, royal province now, 



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To her first eovernor must bow. 

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Connecticut endures the yoke, 

But hides her Charter In the '' Oak." 



Oct. 1687. 



In sixteen hundred eighty-eight, 

When comes King William's glorious reign, 

And Andros falls from high estate, 

New Eno^land has her riehts aealn. 

Though royal governors are named, 

The laws are by the people framed. 



New Englaiul 

regains her 

liberties, 

May, 1689. 



Massachu- 
setts a Koyal 
Province un- 
til the 

Revolution, 



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MAINE AND NEW HAMPSHIRE. 



Territory TN sixtecii hundred and twenty-three, 

between the 1 -r^ x- i t\ /r 

Merrimac Bv Gorees and Mason in company, 

and the Ken- / o i ■/ 

bTt^he e?um-ii Are settlernents made, in the desolate tract 
tosijfei^di- 'Twixt the Kennebec and the Merrimac. 

nand Gorges . . . ^ - . 

and John As stations lor nshmor 

Mason, 1622. r -n» 1 T-A 

The townships of Portsmouth and Dover 
arise. 



.^, in humble guise, 



Proprietors The claims are divided: New Hampshire's domain 

divide their i t\ t • 

dominions, jg given to Masou, while Gorges has Mame. 

His right Massachusetts by purchase acquires; 
But, in eighteen and twenty, the union expires. 
1612-1G90-1G98. With Its southerly neighbor New Hampshire 
thrice wed ; 
And, when of Old England George Second was 
head, 
NewHamp- The people receivinor a rule of his own, 

shire a Pioyal ^ ^ /=' . ^ 

Province, iTii. ^5 a colony royal the provmce was known. 



NEW YORK, 



TN sixteen hundred twenty-three, 

The Dutch West India Company 
To Hudson's Land send out Walloons: 
Estates are ori'anted to Patroons. 
Some at New Amsterdam remain ; 
Some at Fort Orancre homes obtain; 
While, trapped by Minuet's crafty guile, 
The red men sell Manhattan Isle. 



Settlement ol 
New Amster- 
dam, 1G26. 

Fort Orange 
built near 

Albany, 1(515. 
Peter Minuet 
buys Manhat- 
tan Island for 
$24.00. 



When Kieft controlls New Netherland, 
The Indians war with bloody hand. 
Rash Stuyvesant brings tumbling down 
The "jewel of the Swedish crown." 
His flag, from sixteen sixty-four, 
O'er fair Manhattan floats no more. 
The Holland rule is overthrown, 
And James of York secures his own. 



Indian War, 

1640. 

Gov. Stuyves- 
ant subdues 
the colony of 
NeAV Sweden, 
1655, 



James, Duke 
of York, con- 
quers New 
Netherland, 
1664. 



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byThTDu'tch ^^^^^ "^^^ unsettled years ensue. 
1672. ^YhQ Dutch tri-color flaunts anew, 
^f^ideon-'" In seventy-three ; but England's sway, 

quered hy j ^ r 

England and In seventy-lour, returns to stav. 

called New -^ 

York, 1674. 

^<^^-ig^j;i^o«' Despotic Andros, governor, 

The people utterly abhor : 
^''''•i?8*3!'^''''' ^^^ Dongan gives, to their content, 

A democratic government. 
anSS New ^^^^^ James is king, he steals their rights^ 
E?iUd.SSNew England and New York unites. 

With William dawns a brighter day, — 
S^s5i?es^'th2 '^^^ bonds of union fall away; 
^Gri^S.'oi. New England rises, in her might; 
tolnlfaSr New York sees Nicholson in flight; 
^iSnilVo^r: And Leisler, hero of the hour, 

nor, tried as a t t 

usurper, con- U surps an autocratic power; 

demned bv .^^ 

Gov. Hiough-Jhor treason meets a bitter fate, 

ter and ' 

hJ^nged, May ^yheu Sloughter wields the rod of state. 



struggiesof Each needy, crreedy orovernor 

the people -' ' ^ J ^ 

^''gJvlmSr^ Is with the colony at war, — 

Th' Assembly struggling to be free 
From kings, and all their tyranny. 
But naught can stay the happy day, 



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When king and crown shall topple down, 
And freedom's bullets moulded be 
From prostrate ''leaden majesty." 



NEW JERSEY. 

TN sixty-four, two nobles share 

From Hudson to the Delaware. 
West Jersey haughty Berkley gets; 
The eastern half is Cartaret's. 
The province falls, by purchase-right, 
To William Penn and other Friends : 
New Jersey and New York unite. 
In seventeen two ; their union ends, 
When Morris, seventeen thirty-eight. 
Rules Jersey as a separate state. 



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Durinff tbe 
Revolutiuii 
the statue of 
Georf,'e III., 
in New York 
city, was over- 
thrown and 
made into 
bullets. 

The region 
between the 
Hudson and 

the Delaware 
granted by 
the Duke of 

York to Lord 

Berkley and 

Sir George 

Cartaret, 1064. 



The Proprie- 
tors surren- 
ders their 
rights of gov- 
ernment to 
the English 
crown (170-2), 
and the whole 
of New Jersey 
is united with 
New York 
under one 
governor, but 
with a separ- 
ate assembly. 
Union lasts 
till 1738, when 
New Jersey 
is set apart as 

a distinct 
Royal Prov- 
ince. 



PENNSYLVANIA. 
Grant of O'ER the land, which is, now, Pennsylvania's 

Pennsylvania l®j/ ^ 

p'e„i;;'fc'h fe domain, 

4, 1681. -pj^^ good William Penn was appointed a lord ; 
The peaceable Friends, in a covenant chain, 
With the ''sons of the wilderness" lived in accord. 
Where the waves of the Schuylkill and Delaware 
meet, 
1683. Philadelphia rose from a forest retreat. 

Dutch, Enorlish and Germans and Quakers and 
Swedes, 
_ After 1718, The waifs of all nations, the men of all creeds, 

Pennsylvania 

the three sons ^^^^^ welcomed by Peuu, and invited to share 
?he^Ameri?anIn the blessiugs of liberty, free as the air. 

Revolution. 



DELAWARE. 
First settle- T\ colouy of Swedes and Finns 

ment in Dela- ^^^ -^ 



'the*^s^^^e*des ^ fe ^^^^ State of Delaware begins. 



ir.88. 



Their claim New Amsterdam denies, 



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And carries off the conquered prize. 

Then James of York is sovereign, 

But sells his patent right to Penn. 

For twenty years, the province lies 

In Pennsylvania's boundaries; 

And, though, in seventeen hundred three, 

On separation they agree, 

Until the Revolution War, 

They have a common governor. 



Their settle- 
ments con- 
quered by the 
Dutch, if.55, 
and ceded to 
the English, 

Delaware 
constitutes 
the three 
lower coun- 
ties of Penn- 
sylvania. 
Pennsylvania 
and Delaware 

separated 
(170:0, retain- 
ing the same 
governor, but 
each having 
its own as- 
sembly. 



MARYLAND, 



3 S a refuge for Catholics, Lord Baltimore 
(o) Had a grant from King James on the 

Chesapeake shore ; 
And Maryland's liberal charter insured 
Provisions, which absolute freedom secured. 
Though at peace lived its settlers from Indian 

foes, 
From jealous Virginia dangers arose. 
By the hot headed Clayborne rebellion was 

brewed, 
And Puritan bigots fierce quarrels renewed. 
King William suspends the control of the lords, 



Sir George 
Calvert (Lord 
Baltimore) 
founder of 
Maryland. 
First settle- 
ment made, 
163-i. 



Clay home's 

Rebellion, 

i();35. 



Maryland a 
Iioval Prov- 
ince, 1691, 



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The fourth And the rule of the crown to the province accords 

Lord Balti- ^ 

co'veS the George First reinstated the Protestant heir, — 
^nS'Tarj-' No citizen rights could the Catholics share. 

land remains ^^ i i T\/r i t^* i r 

under his ad- burveys made by Mason and Dixon dehne 

minstration, ^ . ^ "^ . 

Ee?oiuUon Pennsylvania s contested south boundary line. 



THE CAROLINAS. 

Where, led by Raleigh and Ribaut 

On Carolina's shore, 
The Enelish and the Huoruenot 

Had perished, years before. 

Grant of In sixteeu hundred sixty-three, 

Carolina to r r^^ i .1 r- t 

theEariof In Charles the Seconds reicjn, 

Clarendon *^ 

^Sils^wef' He gave a noble company 

The rich and vast domain. 

Cape Fear and Albermarle begin, — 
Two central colonies. 
chariestown Amid her crroves of jessamine 

founded, 1670. iY r ^1 1 

The walls of Charleston rise. 

John Locke's ** Grand Model" could not bind 
com-ale&o- A people proud and free : 

prietors cede _ • ^1 t j • 1 

their right of In twenty-uine, the Lords resio^ned 

government -^ ^ 

to the crown, ^^^ restless colouy. 



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King George, who bought their vested right, 

The province cut in two ; 
And Carolinas, North and South, 

In weakh and beauty grew. 



Division into 
North an(3 
Soutli Caro- 
lina by 
George II. 
Thcv remain 
Koyal Prov- 
inces, until the 
Kevolution. 



GEORGIA, 



He settled 

at Savannah. 

1733. 



"OOR England's debtors, helpless, prison bound, 
The poor and the distressed, in southern 
wild, 
Lord Oo^lethorpe a safe asylum found, * 9^1^^}l 

^ ^ , -^ . planted by 

And planted Georgia, England's youngest child. {{^'j;j^p^|J^f2f" 

A bulwark of defense from Spanish foes 

This frontier outpost of the South arose. 

Here plaided Highlander and meek Moravian 

strayed, 
And Whitfield and the Wesleys preached and 

prayed. 
The trustee rule becoming burdensome, '^s^m-render 

K ing George, in fifty-two, the province gave — t?GeorgH\., 
A royal governor, Jamaica rum, Georgia a 

A f A T 1 11 1 Royal Prov- 

A tree Assembly and the ne^ro slave. mee, tiii the 

•' ^ Eevolution. 



INTER-COLONIAL WARS. 

King William's War. 

1689-1697. 



Kin^ Wil- 
liam's War 
•\vitli the 
French, 

The colonies 

in America 

take up the 

auarrel. 



French and 
Indians from 
Canada fall 

upon the 
frontier town 
of Schenec- 
tady. 



TN sl.tteen hundred and eighty-nine, 

A spark from Europe blew over the sea : 
It kindled the bloody King William's War, 

And lighted the flames of Schenectady. 
At the dead of night, while the sentinel slept, 

And all Avas still in the little town, 
On their gliding snow-shoes, soft and fleet, 

Came the French and Indians stealing down. 
Shrill sounded the war-whoop, all ran for their 

lives. 
Women shrieked for their children, men foueht 

for their wives. 
Through the glooms of the forest some threaded 

their way, 
And death reiorned alone, at the break of the day. 



Massachusetts, Connecticut, Plymouth, New York, Attacks by 

' ' ' the colonists 

United to punish their merciless foes: rftnch. 

Phipps captured Port Royal and threatened 

Quebec, 
But the treaty of Ryswick brought peace ^.nd Treaty of^^ 
repose. 



War of the Spanish Succession, 

OR 

Queen Anne's War. 
1702-1713. 

TN seventeen hundred and two, anew, 

France, England, and Spain are a fighting, 
And all the New England frontier is in fear. 
For De Rouville his torch is aliorhtinor 
White and red fiends together, 
In war paint and feather, 
Wake Deerfield, fast sleeping, to wailing and 
weeping. 



French and 
Indians from 
Canada at- 
tack the 
frontier town 
of Deerfield. 



From the ''Nest of the Hornets" the Frenchman Port Royai 

taken from 
is shaken the French 

IS SliaKeil, and named 

And from Anne, its new name, Annapolis taken, ^^^^^p^^'^- 
Of Canada England would fain be the master, 
But her second attempt ends in wreck and 
disaster : 



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rt?e^h? ms ^y ^^^ peace of Utrecht, which ended the war 
Nova Scotia came to her, and bleak Labrador. 



King George's War. 
1744-1748, 

tweln'^ES- ^HE^E'S a lull of a score and a half of years; 

'France^ J- Then the gathering storm clouds lower, 
^'^eofonies *^ And the War of King George, in forty-four, 
Proves the colonies' growing power. 

Capture of Rigrht merrily rine the Boston bells, 

Louisburs: by ^ ^ t* ' 

and?oiSn?ai VVheu, on Louisburg's moated wall, 

loops. ^]^Q crimsoned Cross of St. George goes up, 
And the Bourbon lilies fall. 
But bitter the shame, when, in forty-eight, 
ATx-la^chap- To the French a treaty gave 
Lova'sburff The cherished trophy, so nobly won 

restored to -n -n 1 1 ' i, 

the French. by repperell s yeomen brave. 

The French and Indian War. 
1755-1763. 



?ndiSn \W^E^' ^^ fifty-six, came the old French War, 
't'heVeven*^ In a death struoro'le orrappled the rival 

Years' War. ^^ ^ ^^ 

in Europe. pOWerS, 

And the noble prize they contended for 
Was this crreat and elorious land of ours. 



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When, to wrest from the French their fort, Du Battle of Fort 

DuQuesne, or 
_uesne. Defeat July 9. 

Marched the soldiers of Braddock, with mar- ^^^^' 
tial tread, 
From ambush and thicket, shot, pouring like rain, 

Cut the glittering scarlet line like a thread: 
The leader fell moaning his shameful defeat, 

And Washington covered the hurried retreat. 



The Fall of France in America. 

XXJILD terror and anguish invade the frontier, 
Where the tomahawk threatens the bold 
pioneer : 
From the mighty Ohio to Cape Breton's coast, 
The war song rose high o'er each fortified post. 
The Acadians are scattered as leaves by the TheAea- 

, , dians driven 

blast; iuto banish- 

ment. 

The ''New World's Gibraltar" is Eno-land's, at faptureof 
From the " Key of the Wide West" her foemen Fort DuQues- 

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Withdrew ; itos, 

Niagara's capture cut New France in two. Fort Niagara 

Crown Point yields to Amherst, who plucks out, "'S^-''' 

with pride, 

,^. /, Fort Tioon- 

Ine troublesome ''thorn in the colonies' side." '^'''i^ti^^^ 



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Expedition of We'll follow the leader that croes to Quebec : 

Major-CTen- ^ '^ 

TiiTrSt^^ See Wolfe the proud eminence scaling, 
Qneheo.Ju\y, ^^^| j^j^ red-coated boys, with their blazing - Hot 
Stuff," 
The iron-ribbed fortress assailingr ! 



%Mnfof'''"They run! how they run!" ''Who run?" '' 'Tis 

Abraham. ,i r? i " 

Surrender of the T reuch. 

Quebec. Sept. ^, t t " • i i i , „ 

18,1759. ihen, 1 die, said the hero, ''contented; 

And the noble Montcalm, ere his gallant soul 
fled. 
The fate of his stronghold lamented. 



Montreal and Down drop from the ramparts the lilies of France; 

all Canada t* t i i i i 

^to^^heElS"^? Montreal, ere a twelvemonth, surrenders, 
ii.sh,^sept. 8, j^^^ ^^Q swift-rolling tide of the British advance 
Sweeps the north froni its Gallic defenders. 



The Treaty of Paris, in sixty-three. 
Treaty of Confirmed to Great Britain, in cession. 

Pans between 

aii'd Port'Si! From the broad Mississippi far east to the sea, 

Feb. 10, 1763. 'a j i. 1 

As a sure and eternal possession. 
The Avide-spreading leagues of her western do- 
main, 
A shadowy empire, France yielded to Spain. 



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THE CONSPIRACY OF PONTIAC 

LLJHILE the foot of the conquering Briton is ^^^'J.^^^'c's 
^^ laid 

On the neck, of the prostrate foe, 
Within the westerly forest's shade, 

Burned the council fire's ominous glow; The trii)es of 

T- -n, • r -11 r 1 • ^^^ Alffon- 

i^or rontiac, loreseeinof the doom oi his race, ,/i^V-^ i'^';*?v 

' ^ the ^^ yaudDts 

Has mustered the tribes in his wrath '"eai mfirj^'to' 

And said to the ''red dogs*," '' Remain in yourE^n2ush%rom 

, oeeupyinff the 

place: frontier forts. 

Till the morning, I stand in your path." 
The hatchet is raised o'er each wilderness fort; 

One by one the weak garrisons fall ; 
And the blood thirsty crew have most excellent 
sport, 

In the ''Mackinaw grame of ball." 
But Detroit and Fort Pitt stood unscathed in the ^FortsPitt, 

^lasara and 
fJo-V,!^ . Detroit re- 

t> ' main in tlie 

The tribes their allegiance forswore, ^'Enliish.^^' 

And the Ottawa promised to lead, in his might, 
The nations to battle no more. 



* English. 



CAUSES OF THE REVOLUTION. 



England 
determined 
to tax the 
colonies to 
ray the ex- 
penses of thQ 
French and 
Indian War. 



"QO sooner are the ''Old Thirteen" 

y At peace with all their neighbors, 
Than king and ministry are seen 

At tax-inventincr labors. 
The British sought (to pay their debt), 

America's assistance, 
But arbitrary taxes met 

The colonies' resistance. 



The Stamp 
Act. March. 

1765. 



May 30, 1765. 



Adams, Han- 
cock and 
Otis arouse 
the people. 



In seventeen sixty-five, is passed. 

Lord Grenville's ''Stamp Act" measure. 
And Enorland's Parliament holds fast 

The right to tax, at pleasure. 
Virginia's Patrick Henry sounds 

A signal note of warning; 
The cry of Otis quick resounds, 

The yoke of tyrants scorning, 



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The first "Colonial Congress makes 

New York the place of meeting, 
And, by its *' Declaration," shakes 

All Eneland with its orreetine. 
Immortal Pitt lifts up his voice. 

Repeal full swiftly bringing : 
The ''Sons of Liberty" rejoice, 

/\nd set the bells a ringing. 



First Colonial 

Congress 

meets at New 

York. Oct. 7, 

1765. 



Repeal of the 

Stamp Act, 
March 18, 1766. 



On paper, colors, glass and tea. 

Port duties Townshend orders : 
In turn, the patriots agree 

No goods shall cross their borders. 
"We'll not import; no slaves are we, 

You seek to lay the lash on " : 
So, thread-bare coats and home-made tea 

Became the ruline fashion. 



Port Duties 
imposed, 
June, 1707. 



The tidings of the ''Massacre" 

Such wrathful clamors waken, 
That,save from the "pernicious weed," 

The duties all are taken. 
When " Mohawks," in the harbor set 

Their mighty cup a brewing. 
Lord North brouorht out his "Port Bill "threat Boston Port 



The State 
Street Massa 
ere, March 5, 

1770. 

All duties ex- 
cept on tea 
repealed, 
April 12, 1770 

The Boston 
Tea Party. 
Dec. 16, 1773 



To Boston's sad undoine. 



Bill passed, 
March 31, 1774. 



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Charter of 
Massachu- 
setts annulled 
May 20, I77i. 

Continental 

Congress 

meets, at 

Phiaclelphia, 

Sept. 5, 1774. 



Old Massachusetts' chartered rieht 

George pricks, as 'twere a bubble : 
In Congress, North and South unite, 

To meet the comlne trouble. 
Ten thousand hirelings cross the sea, 

To hold rebellion under; 
Out leap the flame of liberty 

And Revolution's thunder. 






THE FIGHTING BEGINS. 



^HE light is bright, in the North Church tower ; ^54,?;fS?' 
1 The messengers speed on their way, 
To wake, ere the break of the mornine hour. 
The men who must fight that day. 
For, lo ! all aglow In the kindling sky 
Is a nation's birth-heralding star. 
And the chosen of God see the sign from on high, 
And hail the glad omen afar. 



country of 
the march of 
Gen'l Gage's 

troops to 

destroy the 

stores at 

Concord. 



The green is alive. In seventy-five, 

In the early April morning. 
For, at beat of the drum, the alarm men have 
come. 

With their firelocks, to answer the warninor. 



Battle of 
Lexington, 
April 19, 1775c 



See ! Pitcairn appears with his bold grenadiers, 
On a thieving excursion to lead 'em; 



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Parker's heroes in home-spun, seven lay down 
their Hves on 
The Lexineton altar of freedom. 

Battle of Con- Into Concord town the "provincials" pour down — 

cord. ^ ^ ^ ^ 

The British At the bridge, send the *' regulars" flvine ; 

retreat to . . ^ . 

Boston, p^j- ^j^j wide swells the tide of rebellion and 
pride, 
King George and his minions defying. 

The " Green Mountain Boys," with Allen as chief, 
Capture of In 3. haud-to-haud contest, sharp, bloodless and 

Tieonderoga ^ 

by Ethan brief 

Allen, May 10, unci, 

Ca uire of ^^^^^ ^^^ Ticouderoga's dumfounded defenders, 
if/li'^^Ni'r- While to Warner Crown Point, at the first call, 

ner May 12, 1 

1775. surrenders. 



Continental In Pcuu's Ouakcr City, the patriot committee — 
meetsatPhii- ^^he Colouial Couorress — appointed, 

adelphia. May ^ % . 

10.1775. Yn war to lead on, the great Washington, 
Our Joshua, Jehovah's annointed. 

AVashington 

Cc.lmnander- On Buukcr Hill's heicrht, arise in the nio^ht 

in-chief of the ^- , . r i i 

provincial 1 he ramparts by minute-men lended : 

forces, June ^ ■^ 

^5,1775 Thrice acrainst them Howe dashes, amid deadly 

Battle of ^ -^ 

Bunker Hill flaQVipQ • 

or Breed's UasneS , 

Hill, June 17, Storms the bulwarks: the conflict is ended. 



Throuoh Canada snows Monteomerv eoes, Montgomery 

^ f . ^ ^ ^ and Arnold iu 

With Arnold the province invading : Montreal 

Though Montreal falls, Quebec's massive *^liVI^''- 

1 1 Montgomery 

walls killed before 

^ , 1 1 1 r 1 • Quebec. Dec. 

btand unmoved by the herce cannonading: 31.1775. 

His men onward cheerinor, dies the brave son of Fruitless 

-^ . •^ siege of Que- 

Jl,rin * bee by Arnold. 

'Till the spring Arnold stayed, and then raised 
the blockade. 



Howe, orrievously pressed in his snue Boston Occupation of 

^ -^ -^ ^ Dorchester 

nest, Heights by 

« \\ ashington, 

Sees his rarrison doomed to the slaughter, March 4, me. 

♦^ c5 ' Cxen. Howe 

By the magic reared breastworks on Dorchester's gi^iJi-eh^?; 
crest, ' ' ''''• 

And sails north with his troops, o'er the water. 



" Don't let us fight without a flag !" fhTBrftis'h 

Cries Jasper, from th' embrasure leaping, ^&im{,^ 

And, catching up the fallen rag, mie 2^,1^6. 

He plants it mid the fire-balls sweeping. 

Raked fore and aft by Moultrie's guns. 

The British squadron spreads its pinions, 

And Carolina's fearless sons 

Have saved for freedom their dominions. 



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From seventy-six, July the Second, 
Our country's birthday must be reckoned. 
For Congress, then, by vote creates. 
Adoption of As free and independent States, 

theDeclara- „, ^ . \ .,, , 

tion of inde- i he Lolouies which, tul that nour, 

pendence, • ' ' 

July 4, 1776. ^^j bowed to Britain's sovereign power. 
With Jefferson's great *' Declaration," 
The bells rinor in the new-born nation. 



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CAMPAIGN NEAR NEW YORK. 

n^O New York Bay, one August day, 
i The English transports bend their prows : 
With Britain's fleet four leaders meet — 
Cornwallis, Clinton and the Howes. 



Their twenty thousand triumph o'er 
Eight thousand, on Long Island shore, 

And Putnam's troops, in scattered groups, 
Push back in flight, to , Brooklyn's height. 



Battle of Long 

Island, Aug. 

27, 1776. 



Two days the patriots there abide. 
The hostile bands on every side; 

Then, fog enveloped, steal away, 

While Howe bewails his vanished prey. 

New York, abandoned to its fate. 
The fugitives their foes await, 

On Harlem Heights, where Victory's sun 
Illumes the arms of Washincrton. 



Escape of 

American 

army to 

New York. 



New York 
evacuated by 
the Ameri- 
cans Sept. 15. 
1776. 
Battle of 
Harlem 
Hei^'hts Sept. 
IG, 1776. 



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Battle of "White Plains is fous^ht, but ends in nauorht 

White Plains, ^ .,, , 1111 1 

October28, ^tiU northward all the red coats swarm : 

1776. 

Capture of Then Howe turns back upon his track, • 

Fort ^^ ash- i 

'"'fe^nV?.''''' And takes Fort Washington by storm. 



The patriot host, now hold their post 
With Washington, on Jersey's coast: 



Evacuation of They leave Fort Lee, and southward flee, 
November '20. Comwallis followiug hurriedly. 



The way-worn soldiers, in despair, 
Washington At Treuton, cross the Delaware; 

crosses the 

D?cember\ And trembling in the balance lies 
1776. yj^g fortune of the colonies. 



Trliton: 'Tis Christmas night— a bitter night : 
Resolved to strike a daring blow, 
Burpris?fandThe rIver Washington recrossed. 
Hessians. Rail liears the cry, ''The foe! the foe!" 

December 26, i • t t ' • 

1776. And speeds his Hessians to the nght; 
Is first to fall, and all Is lost. 



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m. 



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THE YEAR OF BATTLES. 

1777. 

^HE New Year, seventy-seven, Is here. 
1 Acrain, in Trenton the **'sly fox" lies: — 

-T- 1 r T^ ■ ^ r- 11- n- Attack on 

io the rescue oi rrniceton Cornwalhs nies ; Prin.etonby 

W ishingtoii, 
January 3, 

1777. 

Americans 

^villter at 

Morristown 

Heiirhts. 



But the cunning deceiver eluded his toils, 
And to Morristown Heights escaped with his 
spoils. 



In watching and waiting the months pass away: 
Howe strikes for the south ; patriots hold him 
at bay ; 

He leaves Jersey forever, embarks on the fleet, ^Yo^k^or^ 
His aim — Philadelphia, the government seat 



Howe sails 



Philadelphia, 
July 23, 1777. 



With Washington, Sullivan, Wayne, Lafayette, Battle of the 

T-» 1 1 . , .-, . 1 . 1 Brandywine. 

rulaski and htirnnor an overthrow met, isept. n, 1 777. 



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On Brandywine Creek, from Cornwallis and 

Howe: British take 

The British are safe in the Capitol now. ^^"^^i"' 

A thick, blinding fog and Greene's fatal delay, p,,^^^!^ ^^ 
At Germantown, give to the red-coats the day : ^ucLri?77^"' 



* Cornwallis said " I will bag the fox in the morning." 



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Up the Delaware pass safely their ships with 
supplies, 
^¥t^?^i6rS:' When from Mifflin and Mercer theunion-jack flies. 



^IML supplies 



Washington Vallev Foree, bleak and comfortless haven of rest, 

winters, at ^ ^ 

^''^ii^e^^Foi'se' Where winters the army — cold, hungry, dis- 
tressed ! 
But a ray lights the gloom, when the news cheers 

the land, 
That France gives the rising Republic her hand. 






BURGOYNE'S AND ST. LEGER'S CAM- 
PAIGN FROM CANADA. 



n70 cut off New Enorland, Buroroyne from the ^^"'^.^^"f ^" 
1 north, ^^^''^• 

In his train the Six Nations, with pride has gone 

forth ; 
Fort Ticonderoga, Fort Edward, Whitehall — 
The loud boasting Briton swoops down on them 

all. 



July 6, July 30, 

1777. 



In the Mohawk's orreen valley the husbandmen . ^^■'^^m' 

^ ■' besieged Fort 

rolK^ » Stanwix. and 

^^^^y • defeated 

With Herkimer share Oriskany's red glories; i^ui^H!"!???. 
Arnold marched from the east, and Fort Stanw^ix 

released • 
In a scare fled Leger, with his Indians and 

Tories. 



•i2 

'There come on the Hessians; each cost seven 
pounds ten : 
Stark's AvQ yo7c worth as much, boys? Prove it, then. 

address to the -^ ^ ' 

B?nnington. ^^^^ banner must float over yonder height. 
Or Molly Stark sleeps a widow to-night." 

Battle of Up the hill sweep the men to the blazine re- 

Bennington, ^ ^ *^ 

Aug. 16, 1777. doubt ; 

Baum's battle-scarred veterans are driven in 

rout 
And a thrill of wild joy through America runs, 
At the news of the charge of New England's 

brave sons. 

From afar and from near eager patriots came, 
Gates sue- And euviroued Buro^oyne with a circle of flame; 

( eeds Schuy- »=> J ' 

ler in com- 



mand ot the But, when the imprisoning web had been spun, 

jrics 
Aug. 

won. 



mencans,^ Gates bore off the laurels that Schuvler had 



Oct. 7, 1777. 



Battles of At Stillwater, twice the foiled Britons essayed 
"Saratoga, To breakthrough the lines of the dread barricade; 

Sept. 19, «^ ^ 

Where the bullets fell thickest, everywhere, in a 

breath. 
Like a madman pluneed Arnold throuo^h dan2:er 

and death. 



4d 



In retreat and defeat ends the march of Bur- Surrender of 

Bureroyne. 
goyne, Oet. n. m?. 

While in fervent thanksgiving the colonies join. 

With the new-rising empire, kings greeted the 

name — 

Saratoga, high blazoned in annals of fame. 



The British troops, June, seventy-eight, 

In fear of Louis' tieet, 
The Quaker town evacuate, 

And towards New York retreat. 



Sir Henry 
Clinton leaves 
Philadelphia, 
June 18, 1778. 



On Monmouth's battle-field of woe, 
When Lee, the coward, fled. 

And Washinorton as^ainst the foe 
The wavering columns led, 

In hottest strife, till set of sun. 

Flashed fiercely '' Irish Molly's" gun. 

A joint attack is made upon 
Rhode Island's British o-arrison : 
A storm disperses both the fleets. 
And Washington's design defeats. 

To Georgia State, in seventy-eight, 
The scarlet-coats repair; 



Battle of 
Monmouth; a 
retreat begun 
by General 
Lee turned 
into a victory, 
June 28, 1778. 



The French 
fleet under 
the Count d' 
Estaing is to 
cooperate 
with the 
American 
army under 
Sullivan. The 
French and 
British 
fleets dis- 
abled by a 
storm. 

The Southern 
Campaign. 
Savannah 
captured by 
the British, 
Dec. 29. 1778. 



Savannah's fall begins the ball, 
And Britons triumph there, 

Phmder of The ruthless Tryon lords It o'er 

towns in Con- -^ ^ ^^l 

Tyron,^juiJ, Connecticut's defenceless shore. 

stormniff of Where Stony Point's new ramparts tower, 

bl'inleTfcans " Mad Anthony," at midnight hour, 

under j , i • i \ ^ 

Anthony Leads Up his bayonct armed men, 

T\ayne. July ^ -^ _^ 

16,1779. ^j^j plants the Stars and Stripes again. 
The Paul Tones' ship, thouorh wrecked it lies, 

Bonhomne -^ i ^> 

?or?ou?over With deadly grip holds fast its prize : 
Se?t^irS. 'Neath Richard's flails Serapis quails. 
And low her red-cross enslcrn trails. 

o 
Georgia over- 
run by the 

British. With Georma in their plunderlne hands, 

Capture of ^ r & ' 

c^^J-if tcmby The British reach for other lands ; 
eoiii^.?SiTend- Round Charleston draw their circling fires, 

ers his army, >n-'ii t • i i 

May 12, 1780. i ill Lmcoln, overborne, retires. 

Then, free was Tarleton's vengeful sword. 
To muster each marauding horde, 
That o'er the wretched country poured. 
Brave resist- To Sumpter desperate patriots flock, 

anee of i i i 

'sSmvie?^^ And Strike a blow at Hanging Rock ; 
rix"" mS While, swift, in many a nightly raid, 
^^ linas!^^^" Bold Marlou led a fierce crusade, 
And all the Tory crew dismayed. 



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Gates, sent by Conofress to command, At camden. 

' -^ * ' Gates totally 

To Camden leads his hopeful band. cm^Sis'' 

Cornwallis, now, must be - Burgoyned" ; ^"^- ''' ''''■ 

But, when the foes in battle joined, 
And fell and furious grew the fray, 
'Twas Gates that turned and ran away. 



Base Arnold sold for British eold Arnold's trea- 

o son. Andre 

West Point, of Hudson forts the key; %''ct.fii!r 

And gave his name a traitor's fame, 
By unavailing treachery. 



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[I-LLIX3 I I 1 1 




GREENE'S CAMPAIGN IN THE SOUTH. 



W 



HEN Greene, in October, of eighty, suc- 
ceeds. 

As southern commander, to Gates, 
Battle of the Dan Mororau, with half of the army, proceeds 

Cowpens, ^^ . 

De^fekt'of 'the ^^ ^^ Gowpeus, and Tarleton awaits, 
^ahT\maer Come the British dragoons with their volley and 

Tarleton. by i 

Morg-an-.s SllOUt, 

But the famous light troops send them flying in 
rout. 



cornwaiiis To the north Morc» an wheels, and close at his heels 

pursues Mor- ti i i i i 

trail and Comwallis pursues, like a hound on the track, 

Gi-eene to ^ 

Virginia ^j] eager for blood, but the high swelling flood 
Saved the patriots twice from the royalist pack. 



Battle of Guii- Greene would fiorht and tret beaten, then try it 

ford March 15. & & 

1781 doubtful ao^ain; 

victorr of the & ' 

British. 5q ^^,[^^ couraore undaunted, he leads on his men. 



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"Guilford Court House" was lost but, the cost 

was so dear, 
To the sea-side the British retreated, in fear. 
"Eutaw Sprinors " shortly brings the campaign to battle of Eu- 

^ ^ / t> i & taw, Sept. 8, 

n olnc^ 1781, defeat of 

a Close. Greene. 

And the rule of King George in the south over- treaur' 

, Charleston. 

throws. 



Meantime, o er Virormia had swept, in his wrath, British forces 

-T-1 1 ^ 1 1 • 1 1 1 . 1 . 1 under Arnold, 

1 he treacherous Arnold, with death in his path, ^^^ir^'.^ams^ 
Cornwallis then headed a shameful foray, v5g?nfa. 

While, in vain, Lafayette tried to block up his 

way. 
To Yorktown the British commander repairs. They fortify 
And the finishing act of the drama prepares. YorSown!^ 



To the Chesapeake shore kindly Providence 

Korp Lafayette, 

^^^^ Washington 

De Grasse, with the white-bannered army and b?ai/meetTt" 

nWilliams- 
eet, biu-M'. 

^ ^ A French fleet 

And to Clinton s dismay are up and away GrasslfemSrs 

His menacinor foemen, to be at the meet. ^^leaki''^' 



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'Tis the last of September; twelve thousand allies sietre of 

Draw nearer and nearer the coveted prize. 
Cut off from escape and too weak to defend. 



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Surrender Comwallis Surrenders: — the war's at an end. 

Cornwallis 

^'et^iTnsT'On October nineteenth, of the year eighty-one, 
This last crownine work for our freedom was done. 



Evacuation of The uews Came to North, Hke a ball in the 

Savannah, 

Charleston,^ ureast. 

^ew^Yorkf ' In the clamor for peace, George at last, acquiesced; 
From Savannah and Charleston his troops are 

withdrawn. 
Carleton sails from New York, and the Briton is 

gone. 
On October the third, of the year eighty-three, 
Treaty of To the Treaty of Paris the nations agree. 

Paris between 

GreatBritain. Nova Scotia and Canada Enorland retains, 

the United ^ ^ ^ _ ' ^ 

Fra^nceand And Florida, now, with the Spaniard remains, 
spain.jep. 3. q^ ^^^^ j^^^^^^ Republic, with liberty crowned. 

Is the far Mississippi the westerly bound. 






